Dead & Company, Phish will play Klipsch Music Center

Improvisational rock is mounting a major comeback at Klipsch Music Center, where Dead & Company and Phish will perform in June.

Dead & Company, a band featuring surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann as well as singer-songwriter John Mayer, will play the Noblesville amphitheater on June 17.

Phish, a band that hasn't played Klipsch Music Center since 2012, will perform on June 26.

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Tickets for Dead & Company show go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Access to a password-free presale that begins at 10 a.m. Thursday is available at the mobile app for concert promoter Live Nation. For more information, visit DeadAndCompany.com.

For the Phish show, an online ticket-request period is underway at Tickets.Phish.com and will end at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 21. Tickets go on sale to the public on Feb. 25. For more information, visit Phish.com.

In 2015, Phish vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio joined Dead & Company members Weir, Hart and Kreutzmann plus Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh for five "Fare Thee Well" concerts celebrating the Dead's 50th anniversary.

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Lesh is not participating in the Dead & Company project, which launched with Mayer in October. Mayer, similar to Anastasio's role in the 50th anniversary performances, sings tunes associated with Jerry Garcia (1942-1995).

California's Grateful Dead played its first Indiana concert on April 18, 1969 -- a show at Purdue University's Memorial Union. A famed association with Klipsch Music Center, originally known as Deer Creek Music Center, began on July 9, 1989. The final Grateful Dead show Klipsch made news for all the wrong reasons. Thousands of ticketless fans charged the back fence of the amphitheater's lawn on July 2, 1995.

From 1995 to 2012, Vermont's Phish played 22 shows at Klipsch.

Call Star reporter David LIndquist at (317) 444-6404. Follow him on Twitter: @317Lindquist.